ICU Window, Inc., is trying to determine its cost of debt. The firm has a debt i
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Question
ICU Window, Inc., is trying to determine its cost of debt. The firm has a debt issue outstanding with eight years to maturity that is quoted at 110.5 percent of face value. The issue makes semiannual payments and has an embedded cost of 8.4 percent annually. What is ICU%u2019s pretax cost of debt? If the tax rate is 38 percent, what is the aftertax cost of debt?
ICU Window, Inc., is trying to determine its cost of debt. The firm has a debt issue outstanding with eight years to maturity that is quoted at 110.5 percent of face value. The issue makes semiannual payments and has an embedded cost of 8.4 percent annually. What is ICU%u2019s pretax cost of debt? If the tax rate is 38 percent, what is the aftertax cost of debt?
Explanation / Answer
Let Face value be $1000
We have current Value = PV= 110.5%*1000= 1105
Coupon = 8.4% Semiannual
SO PMT = 8.4%*1000/2 = 42
nper = 8*2 = 16 periods
SO PreTax cost of debt Kd = 2*Rate(nper,pmt,pv,fv)
= 2*Rate(16,42,-1105,1000)
= 6.68%
AFter tax cost of deb = Kd*(1-T) = 6.68%*(1-38%) = 4.14%